n the second quarter of Three Day Road, some crucial flashbacks are brought up from both Niska's and Xavier's point of view. The first part, however, is from Xavier's perspective, in a flashback from war, where they are fighting in a place called White Horse Cellars. Xavier spots the movement of soldiers, and Elijah guns them down. Thomson, impressed with Elijah and Xavier's teamwork, is told by Elijah that they both have been hunting their entire lives. Xavier knows this isn't true, but keeps it to himself. After this, Elijah sneaks out at night and suffocates a suffering German soldier. Elijah is starting to gain some respect. Soon after, as a British officer is talking to their battalion, the 48th Highlanders, about a shooting competition. …show more content…
The shooting competition only has 3 people left. Elijah, Xavier and a highlander. The final part of this competition is to light a match with a bullet. On his final try, Xavier lights the match. McCaan gives him a new nickname: X. He has gained an enormous amount of respect compared to what he had before. Back on the canoe, Niska asks Xavier about the last time he saw Elijah. He tells her for a short moment about the forest fire, but he falls back into a flashback. He once again recalls the death of Sean Patrick. Him and Elijah being determined to find the phantom sniper, the killer of Sean Patrick and several others. Checking his rifles accuracy, Elijah shoots the bloated belly of a dead horse. Hiding beneath this dead horse was the phantom sniper. With two shots, Elijah killed him. The narrative switches back to Niska. She tells ailing Xavier about her past, as she set up camp for the night. After her mother saved her from the residential schools, they became awawatuk. These were Cree people not accepted by the Cree for rejecting the wemistikoshiw. She also took over her Father's role of medicine man and a diviner. Now, Niska is not telling her story aloud anymore, but silently …show more content…
They decide to have sex. When she awoke, the hunter was gone. As Niska goes to sleep in the teepee, Xavier starts to recall, again, about when he killed the phantom sniper. McCaan sends Xavier, with Elijah and Thomson, to search for him. They retrieve his bayonet, along with his rifle. When Lieutenant Breech sends 6 soldiers out on a raiding mission, which Xavier thinks is too many for this. Elijah leaves briefly to get a morphine tablet from the medic. The medic says no, because supplies are getting low. Next, the 6 soldiers leave for the German lines. In the chaos here, Elijah is severely injured, so Xavier lays on top of him to protect him. He has a few scratches and a potential broken arm, so he takes morphine. Xavier also learns that one of the soldiers died, and Thomson was sent to a hospital. Thomson might've died if it weren't for Gilberto, who saved Thomson. As Elijah and Gilberto were talking, Xavier recollects his short period of time at the residential school. He remembers the oppressive Sister Magdalene, who beat Elijah and Xavier with a switch. On the reserve, Elijah and Xavier visit estaminets, pubs that sell alcohol. Xavier, while drunk, meets a girl named Lisette. They hold hands and
Many films depict a protagonist suffering from amnesia which makes them incapable of doing to do day-to-day activities while struggling to find their purpose, but rarely do these films portray people who suffer from such conditions accurately. These conditions are used to create suspenseful films which makes it easier for filmmakers to intrigue viewers to the theatres. Similarly, Ghajini (Mantena, Aravind & Murugadoss, 2008) a film which is centered around a character named Sanjay Singhania, who suffers from anterograde amnesia as a result of brain injury after being hit on the head with an iron rod (Mantena, Aravind & Murugadoss, 2008). The film follows him on his journey to take revenge of his girlfriend’s murder, while struggling with his inability to create new memories (Mantena, Aravind & Murugadoss, 2008). Films tend to glamorize conditions such as anterograde amnesia and Ghajini (Mantena, Aravind &
While the flashbacks do give the Chief some backstory, the flashbacks also act as a way to see society’s machine-like antics in the outside world.
The next chapter is about Niska going in town and asked about the information of the war and her nephew. She then wrote a letter to Xavier to tell him about her life and to come home safe with the help of Joseph, her childhood friend who was living in town. The plot then switches to Xavier’s perspective at the battlefield in Passchendaele where the Canadians continued to take over places after places and prove their valuable abilities. Elijah shoots a child by mistake, after Xavier kills a German sniper during a scouting in a crumbling city. The battle of Passchendale was won within months. Xavier is losing his hearing, so he plays it off as not understanding English. In Chapter 26, Elijah finds the French man from the Christmas before to show
The Cellar is a fictional book about this man named Colin, who kidnapped girls and killed them and made them live in the Cellar of his house. Colin loved flowers, and wanted a family so his named the girls he kidnapped, such as Lilly, the main character of the book, Rose, Violet, and Poppy. Lilly was the only girl kidnapped that was still a child and was not living on the streets. Colin, also wanted to be apart of this family so he also called himself, Clover. If or When the girls ever tried to escape he killed them, took their body and threw them in the river, then he went out and found another girl to call a flower. Eventually, Colin knew people were out looking for Lily, so he knew in order to keep the flowers as a family he had to kill everyone including himself. In the end, Colin, ended up killing Rose, and Poppy, but somehow Lily and Violet escaped with only cuts to their body. Colin later was taken to another unit and was put in a mental illness home.
Demons confront the three remaining members of the escape party and slay one of them. She escapes with the last member to the New Mexican desert through a portal she opens. Out of rage, she kills her because she discovers her ties to the enemy faction.
Everyone in life should think positive, especially when facing hard times. In “If I stay” by Gayle Forman, the characters have to go through a brutal situation. Their whole family suffers because of the impact of her car accident. Gayle Forman focused deeply on flashbacks to show everything positive going through Mia’s mind during and before the accident.
//Xavier discovers that he didn’t really go to see a “therapist.” The climax of the story. It is revealed that all of theses things are happening because when he was younger his mother made a deal with the devil (Character Revelation). Xavier will disappear. The police will come searching for Xavier, only to find a note, the pivotal artifact. Each time the note is viewed a new message appears, revealing where Xavier
When they got back to the castle, Liam instructed his wife, Annabelle, to make a bed for Athena . He then sent Athena off with a guard to watch over her and keep her safe. Liam returned to his wonderful queen and told her what happened in the woods. Then Annabelle told him that she was pregnant and Liam was happy. Liam wondered what to do with the little broken down child from the forest: to keep her or to send her off. The girl fell asleep scared, wondering what was happening to her.
Throughout the play Benard is often is flashbacks and is depicted as a nervous boy who attempts to get Biff to study in hopes of passing his math class. More specifically, “Just because he printed University of Virginia on his sneakers doesn't mean they've got to graduate him, Uncle Willy” this scene is important as Benard decided to reason with Biff yet, Willy believes it is not necessary to learn the subject if Benard can give Biff the answers to the exam. This sequence depicts the cruel behavior in which the Willy and Biff treated Benard as a nuisance. As a result when Willy speaks to Benard years later Willy was astonish at the success Bernard had managed to earn (Miller Act II: 1597). During this conversation Willy was reminded that he
She a was a scouter just like I was she was fiery and fun but she feared disappointing david, more like outshining his ego so she stayed quiet when he was around. Now though I wish she had stuck up for me that day,after carter fixed himself up we continued. We rehearsed numerous times and finally that evening I was ready. Xavier joined us, even though his body clearly didn't want him to. As he gazed upon me, I played my heart out with each note, putting my soul into the keys. The song finished and xavier leaned in to kiss me, his body had other ideas as he began to choke on his own breath and you could see the pain in his eyes as he fainted.”Medic!” I scream with all my might, the “nurses” burst through the door and lift xavier onto a stretcher and leave the room. He holds up the sign for “I love you as he disappears down the
Mr. Fox’s entrance into the kitchen called Lucy out of her default settings, a mode she naturally reverted to outside of her owner’s presence. As if he brought with him a sense of calmness, the morning’s debacle over ‘humanity’ became nothing but a distance memory. Pressed to make him comfortable best as possible, she offered him Francis, watching as father and daughter reunite. In a curious way, Lucy had found herself observing the interaction between Mr. Fox and his child, trying to discover how they functioned without programming. But came to zero conclusion. When she first arrived and Mr. Fox asked what she wanted to be called, nearly every circuit fried itself, trying to understand his reasoning. Normally it was the owners who choose their
As teachers, we are here to educate our students in our areas, but how do we know when students actually understand and learn the information being taught? Marilee Sprenger (1998) said “memory is the only way to verify learning”. After researching the parts of the brain and learning how it processes information, her statement is true. “Memory is the process by which we retain the knowledge and skills for the future” (Sousa, 2011). According to Sprenger (1998), there a five separate memory lanes: semantic, episodic, procedural, automatic, and emotional. Semantic memory deals with words and is the most difficult because you must process it repeatedly for long-term effects. Episodic memory is location-driven. The procedural memory is your “how-to” memory. Automatic memory
Dare to Dream begins with my all time favorite film technique Flash Back. The women start by going by into the 80’s looking a photographs of themselves taking it back to where it all started. Flashbacks gives us visual information that cant be shown to us in any other way. The purpose of the flashback is to connect the past with the present to show give an insight of the characters to show whats going on moving forward. The flashbacks takes us back in history in where they were stereotyping women in sports to what they were willing to do and endured during the time. It shows how this group of outstanding women elevated soccer to the level of achieving World Cup victories and greater viewership than for any other soccer match in U.S. history.
Have you ever heard about the beginning of the end? Well the creators of the graphic novel Daytripper demonstrate a significant amount of this paradox. Authors Gabriel Bά and Fάbio Moon produced an enormous enigma throughout their book Daytripper. With pivotal moments that leaves the reader befuddled from the main character Brάs de Oliva Domingos, a son, a father, a friend, a lover and a writer's constant fatalities (Murphy). Authors Bά and Moon sure didn’t hesitate to leave their book as an enigma.
Mama took special care in ironing my dress that day. It was the best dress I owned and it was usually reserved for special occasions. I had last worn it to Papa’s funeral. It had been two years since Papa died.